- #1 Go-Go Town!
96% matchVery Positive93% of 2,784 reviews2026
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Management 15.6%, Simulation 7.2%
- #2 Make Your Kingdom
97% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Building 18.5%, Management 15%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 5.9%
- #3 A World of Keflings
96% matchVery Positive99% of 489 reviews2025
Dev: NinjaBee
Windows
Keflings may be small, but their kingdom-building adventures are gigantic! Build a world with your friends in A World of Keflings! Harvest resources, construct robots, befriend a dragon, and help a creepy witch get even creepier in this update of the classic 2010 city-building adventure.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Building 20%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 6.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #4 Tinytopia
95% matchVery Positive83% of 328 reviews2021
Dev: MeNic GamesPub: Mastiff
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Building 20.9%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 7%, Crafting 5%
- #5 Fabledom
94% matchVery Positive85% of 7,886 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 7%
- #6 Odd Realm
94% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 16.1%, Management 15.6%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #7 Orrstead
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 18%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #8 Stonehearth
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Building 20.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 4.7%, Management 4.4%
- #9 Kingdoms Reborn
91% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 50.9%, Management 14.9%, Building 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #10 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
91% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: City Builder 44.1%, Building 18.1%, Management 14.4%, Colorful 7%, Fantasy 6.4%
- #11 Airborne Kingdom
90% matchVery Positive87% of 2,406 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Building 19.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Exploration 6.8%
- #12 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
89% matchMixed50% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Building 16%, Simulation 12%, Fantasy 8.9%, Colorful 6.6%
- #13 Kingdoms and Castles
89% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Management 14%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #14 Lords and Villeins
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Building 16.9%, Management 16.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #15 Outlanders
87% matchVery Positive90% of 515 reviews2023
Dev: Pomelo Games
Windows
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Building 20.3%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 7.1%
- #16 Goblins of Elderstone
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Building 19.8%, Management 15.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #17 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGamesPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: City Builder 47.5%, Simulation 17.7%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #18 Thronefall
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,759 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 57.1%, Building 20.8%, Combat 8.2%, Colorful 5.3%, Fantasy 4.7%
- #19 PyramidValley: Reborn
83% matchVery Positive88% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Sandbox 23.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 5%
- #20 United Penguin Kingdom
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Management 18.7%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 5.4%
- #21 HammerHelm
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 398 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 25.6%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Fantasy 6.4%, Simulation 6.2%
- #22 Kingdom Two Crowns
82% matchVery Positive90% of 39,881 reviews2018
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: City Builder 40%, Building 22.6%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Simulation 7.2%
- #23 Airborne Empire
78% matchVery Positive87% of 948 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Sandbox 15%, Building 12%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 10%
- #24 Indoorlands
79% matchVery Positive81% of 279 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Building 19.3%, Management 17.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #25 Gnomoria
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Sandbox 23.1%, Building 16.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Management 4.2%
- #26 Noble Fates
79% matchVery Positive83% of 1,489 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 17.2%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 5.5%
- #27 Hearthlands
80% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 43.3%, Management 16.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 8.6%
- #28 RPG Tycoon
81% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Management 20.1%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 8.2%
- #29 Mini City: Mayhem
77% matchVery Positive88% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, plan, and flourish while the time is running! Mini City: Mayhem is a chaos-filled city-builder where you build against time. Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. Become the greatest urban planner of all time!
Why similar: City Builder 43.3%, Management 19.6%, Building 18.3%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #30 Let Them Trade
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,191 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Building 18%, Management 16.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 6%
- #31 Glimvale : My Mini Overworld
75% matchVery Positive92% of 114 reviews2026
Dev: Milkshake Games
Windows
Glimvale is a solo cosy city-builder with idle mechanics where you manage, decorate, and grow a charming MMO village. Keep adventurers happy and shape the world at your own pace. After all, you’re the game master.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 18.3%, Management 16.6%, Fantasy 4.9%
- #32 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
77% matchMixed58% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Building 17.6%, Management 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #33 Scrap Mechanic
72% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 34.5%, Sandbox 27.7%, Multiplayer 15%, Crafting 6.7%, Simulation 6%
- #34 Coronation
78% matchMixed64% of 107 reviews2021
Dev: Twin Sword Studio
Windows
Coronation, an online medieval sandbox with player-built settlements, dungeons & economy.
Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Management 19.7%, Combat 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #35 AColony
76% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Building 19.1%, Management 14.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Exploration 6.8%
- #36 Border Town
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 308 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.6%, Building 34.3%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Adventure 8.3%, Fantasy 5.9%
- #37 Settlement Survival
74% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Building 19.3%, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #38 Outland Kingdoms
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: City Builder 38.3%, Building 19%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 12%, Simulation 9.4%
- #39 The Economy Bros
72% matchVery Positive87% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Devin CarlsonPub: Flying Blade Studio LLC
Windows
Build your dream city from scratch in this sandbox tycoon: start by working or gathering resources, trade businesses and real estate based on market demand, expand your land, and grow your empire—all while surviving and stacking up cold hard cash from your strategic moves.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #40 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
Windows
Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 13.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 7.6%
- #41 Founders' Fortune
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Building 19.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 7.5%
- #42 Besiege
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 53,310 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Why similar: Building 31.9%, Sandbox 30.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Simulation 12%, Level Editor 6.6%
- #43 SteamWorld Build
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,285 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Building 15.9%, Management 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #44 Territory: Farming and Warfare
70% matchVery Positive85% of 766 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 15.2%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #45 Ratopia
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Building 20.6%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #46 Civitatem
73% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 50.2%, Building 14%, Simulation 12.4%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #47 Dungeon Tycoon
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,953 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Management 17.9%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 7%
- #48 Spiritstead
68% matchVery Positive84% of 174 reviews2026
Dev: Turbo Dog Games
Windows
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Building 21.1%, Management 17.2%, Simulation 5.9%, Exploration 5%
- #49 Folklands
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Building 20.5%, Management 15.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Exploration 7.3%
- #50 Havendock
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Building 16%, Sandbox 15.3%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #51 Venture Valley
71% matchMixed54% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: The Singleton FoundationPub: Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Windows · Mac
Be Your Own Boss!
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Building 20%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #52 TerraScape
67% matchVery Positive89% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 51.4%, Resource Management 17.4%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Online Co-Op 14.8%
- #53 Tavernacle!
69% matchMixed59% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Dama Dama GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Grab your hammers and start to craft in this co-op Tavern Defense for one to four players. As a team of Dwarves, you must gather supplies and build towers to protect your beloved brewery. Learn to cooperate to achieve victory in this chaotic multiplayer game!
Why similar: Combat 21.6%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Online Co-Op 21.4%, Fantasy 13%, Adventure 9.9%
- #54 Dungeon Overseer
70% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Building 18.3%, Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #55 Castle Craft
65% matchVery Positive82% of 503 reviews2026
Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
Why similar: City Builder 47.7%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 20.7%, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #56 Catizens
66% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 6.4%
- #57 STARIO: Haven Tower
64% matchVery Positive94% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #58 Tropico 6
66% matchVery Positive88% of 29,546 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Why similar: City Builder 46.1%, Management 15.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10%, Simulation 8.3%